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AFGHANISTAN officials have claimed that Afghan and NATO forces were retaliating for gunfire from two Pakistani army bases when they called in airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, adding a layer of complexity to an episode that has further strained Pakistan's ties with the United States.
The account challenged Pakistan's claim that the strikes were unprovoked.
The attack near the Afghan-Pakistani border aroused popular anger in Pakistan and added tension to the US-Pakistani relationship, which has been under pressure since the secret US raid inside Pakistan that killed Osama b
Originally posted by sir_slide
I'm not sure whether I believe this, it seems an obvious effort to amp up the war rhetoric from yet another angle and to me it seems that the NATO airstrike was an obvious ploy to try and get Pakistan to attack NATO/US forces, in order to kick off a larger conflict.
Seriously? The US (NATO) have done this hundreds if not thousands of times. Why should this be any different. I think your forgetting that they are INVAIDING THE COUNTRY BY BEING THERE!
So you are willing to believe that a NATO airstrike was called in, orders given and obvious Pakistani soldiers were targeted and killed, completely unprovoked, just because they were there? US and NATO forces firing on Pakistani soldiers across the border, for no legitimate reason? Firing indiscriminately on innocent soldiers who are our sworn allies? Really?
Originally posted by WakeUpRiseUp
Seriously? The US (NATO) have done this hundreds if not thousands of times. Why should this be any different. I think your forgetting that they are INVAIDING THE COUNTRY BY BEING THERE!
Not Pakisatni but countless other countries. If you do not know that you should research the history of the US before responding
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Originally posted by WakeUpRiseUp
Seriously? The US (NATO) have done this hundreds if not thousands of times. Why should this be any different. I think your forgetting that they are INVAIDING THE COUNTRY BY BEING THERE!
Can you provide a few examples out of these "hundreds if not thousands of times" that US and NATO forces have directly targeted and killed Pakistani soldiers from across the border?edit on 27-11-2011 by Fractured.Facade because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
Originally posted by sir_slide
I'm not sure whether I believe this, it seems an obvious effort to amp up the war rhetoric from yet another angle and to me it seems that the NATO airstrike was an obvious ploy to try and get Pakistan to attack NATO/US forces, in order to kick off a larger conflict.
So you are willing to believe that a NATO airstrike was called in, orders given and obvious Pakistani soldiers were targeted and killed, completely unprovoked, just because they were there?
US and NATO forces firing on Pakistani soldiers across the border, for no legitimate reason?
Firing indiscriminately on innocent soldiers who are our sworn allies?
Really?
Originally posted by jcord
reply to post by DavidsHope
You can vote. But do you the voter hold sway over your elected representatives? Or do those who make those elected reps rich hold sway over them? Or do those who threaten to kill them hold sway over them? Or do those who threaten to expose the dirty secrets of those reps hold sway? Those who hold sway have been perfecting their COINTELPRO like tactics for decades. They know human nature and how to set people up. That is all.
Originally posted by sir_slide
reply to post by jude11
That's what I'm thinking.
They're also just using this for some justification back home to get some more conflict happening.